Improvement in washing-machines



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' Washing-Machines. No. 143,779; PatentedOct. 21,1873.

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Washing-Machines.

No. 143,779. PatentedOct. 21,1873.

. To all whom it may concern:

and consists in so arranging the rollers that journals.

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IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,779, dated October 21, 1873; application filed June 25, 1873.

Be it known that I, NOAH J. PARSONS, of Cortland, in the .county of Cortland and State of. New York, have invented an Improvement in Washing-Machines, of which. the following is a specification:

This invention relates to that class of washing-machines having a concave-bed of rollers in the suds-box, upon which the articles to be washed are rubbed or rolled in the process of washing by a rubber suspended over such bed;

their journals rest upon movable segmental bars suspended from a point above the box, and which are free to swing lengthwise of the box, the rollers being held in position by a stationary cap over the upper portion of their Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a perspective view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a horizontal and sectional view.

B is the box, upon the outer sides of which are attached strong upright supports M M. Metallic bars 0 0, segments of a circle, are suspended, by the rods g g, from a hook or pivot on the supports M M, at a point above the box, and free to swing backward and forward in the plane of their circle and along the sides ers rest upon the segmental bars 0 c, and roll upon them. D l) are metallic plates attached to the sides of the box. The lower edges of these are curved to nearly the same circle as the segmental bars, and are also so cut out on the lower edge as to fit down upon and cap the journals of the rollers, and so make the upper portion of a journalbox for each roller. The rollers and the bed formed by them are thus kept in position.

In operation, each roller, as it is rex'olved, having its chief bearing upon the bars, tends to move them in an opposite direction and as these bars move they revolve all the rollers in one direction, and with one and the same velocity, and the friction and wear of the rollerjournals are greatly lessened, and clothing is less worn in the process of washing.

I claim- The combination of the movable segmental Witnesses HIRAM ORANDALL,

usual concave bed. The journals of the roll- Frrz BOYNTON. 

